fwd: vim

Rodney Clowdus rclowdus at kcnet.com
Tue Aug 21 13:17:14 EDT 2001


Thanks that works better than the way I use to do it!  Pretty cleaver!  Now I 
have the best of both worlds whether I'm in the file or whether I'm out of 
the file, very cool and very simple!
Rodney
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 09:56 am, you wrote:
> Yea but what if he wants to insert the shell output into the middle of an
> existing file?
>
> Here is what I just tried in vim.
> Type the following command sequence to insert the current date/time into
>
> your file:
> :r !dt
> :r reads in a supposed file but !command is substituted for that file name
>
> and the output of the command will come into the file.  Quite clever, I
> shalle say.:)
>
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Rodney Clowdus wrote:
> > Let's say we have a file named time and we want to append the output of
> > the command date to the file.  Quit vi in you are in it and type date >>
> > time and the output of date will be appended to the file named time.   If
> > you want to overwrite the file type only one > but to append type two >>.
> >  I find it works pretty good for me.  My two cents worth.
> > Rodney
> >
> > On Monday 20 August 2001 09:43 pm, you wrote:
> > > While we're on the subject of editors.. I've recently started using vim
> > > instead of nano, and I'm very pleased with it. I'm trying to find a way
> > > to be able to enter a shell command and have its output inserted into
> > > the current file. Anyone have any ideas?
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > >
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